The Last Rose of Summer (Moore)

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The Last Rose of Summer
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Moore wrote this poem in 1805, while staying at Jenkinstown Park in County Kilkenny, Ireland, where he was said to have been inspired by a specimen of Rosa 'Old Blush'. The poem is set to a traditional tune called "Aislean an Oigfear", or "The Young Man's Dream", which was transcribed by Edward Bunting in 1792, based on a performance at the Belfast Harp Festival. The poem and the tune together were published in December 1813 in volume 5 of Thomas Moore's A Selection of Irish Melodies. The original piano accompaniment was written by John Andrew Stevenson; several other arrangements followed in the 19th and 20th centuries. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Versions of The Last Rose of Summer include:

"The Last Rose of Summer" in Dugald MacTaggart (1810s)
"The last Rose of Summer" in The Highland Plaid (c. 1815–1825)
"The Last Rose of Summer", in Seven Popular Songs (1826), a chapbook printed in Falkirk
"The last Rose of summer" in Ten Favourite Songs (1830-1837(?))
"Parody on the Last Rose of Summer" in A Night Frae Hame (1842)
"'Tis the Last Rose of Summer" in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)
"The Last Rose of Summer" in Poems That Every Child Should Know ed. by Mary E. Burt (1904).
"The Last Rose of Summer" in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1917).